Nvidia are well known for an extremely fast turnaround time for new drivers, even WHQL-certified drivers. Game Day drivers – GeForce 347.52, the drivers we're focusing on, among them – tend to be issued on the day of every major game release. AMD by contrast tend to rely on progressive beta candidates before rolling in changes to a major update later in the month. By working closely with game developers Nvidia tend to have access to game release candidates early on, allowing their driver team some lead time prior to release to smooth out any problems.

"Earlier this week I showed benchmarks of AMD's incredible year
for their open-source Linux driver and how the open-source Radeon
Gallium3D driver moved closer to performance parity with Catalyst. One
of the lingering questions though is how does the Catalyst 14.12 Omega
Linux driver from December compare to the latest Catalyst Windows
driver? Here's some benchmarks looking at the latest open and
closed-source drivers on Linux compared to the latest Catalyst Windows
release."

"With this week having delivered our 2014 Catalyst Linux
Graphics Benchmarks Year-In-Review that looked at the evolution of the
AMD Catalyst Linux driver performance over this year, now it's time to
see how the open-source Radeon driver performance has evolved."

AMD launch their new Catalyst Omega driver today. We had time to sit down with Sasa and Terry from AMD - two of the key people responsible for the new software. We also coverage the main differences and improvements with the new driver software.

AMD worked on the Catalyst Omega Driver (Catalyst 14.12) that was released earlier this week for nearly six months. These new drivers bring new features, a ton of bug fixes and of course the usual performance and quality improvements that gamers expect from each new driver release. AMD put so much time and effort into these new special edition drivers that they wanted to name this something different to help them stand out from the crowd. We figured the least we could do is take a look at the performance of the the new Catalyst Omega driver versus that of the previous non-beta driver release, which would be Catalyst 14.9 on our Radeon R9 290 Crossfire setup.

Great computing experiences don’t just happen—they’re AMD-enabled. The latest major release of our drivers are available as a free upgrade for AMD customers. In addition to releasing new versions of the system software at regular intervals, AMD today released...

NVIDIA just officially announced the SHIELD tablet (powered by their Tegra K1 SoC) and SHIELD wireless controller. As the SHIELD branding implies, the new SHIELD tablet and wireless controller builds upon the previously-released, Android-based SHIELD portable to bring a true gaming-oriented tablet to consumers. In some ways, the SHIELD tablet and wireless controller are somewhat of mashup of the SHIELD portable and the Tegra Note 7, but featuring updated technology and better build materials. You could think of the SHIELD tablet and wireless controller as an upgraded SHIELD portable gaming device, with the screen de-coupled from the controller.
The device features the aforementioned NVIDIA Tegra K1 SoC, paired to 2GB of RAM and an 8”, full-HD IPS display, with a native resolution of 1920x1200...

It was quite a bit of work to make a xmas release date, but the Guru3D team finished and polished up MSI Afterburner. This new iteration of the Overclock software (compatible with both AMD Radeon and Nvidia GeForce graphics cards) has had a complete overhaul in terms of design and looks. MSI Afterburner is ultimate graphics card utility, co-developed by MSI and RivaTuner teams.
Also with Christmas in sight, starting Wednesday until the last day of the year Guru3D.com will have a competition each and every day with some kick-ass prizes if I may say. But for now, here is a what we have been working on hard behind the scenes.

The name - Catalyst Omega – immediately underscores the importance of the update in a way that a simple number cannot. Whilst ‘Catalyst 14.9.3 beta candidate 3’ sends gamers to sleep (unless it contains a critical fix for their game of the month) Omega turns heads and should have even the mainstream user taking note. Of course, that also means that the new driver package needs to be the most stable released, and AMD are hoping that their crowdsourced priority list for bug fixes will have nailed down major problems before they occur.

Summary: "There are some significant performance improvements to find
with this week's Linux version of the AMD Catalyst 14.12 "Omega" driver,
but there's also some Linux OpenGL performance regressions to note too.
Feedback from the Linux community as well to this new driver has been
mixed."

Nvidia G-SYNC technology is something that is hard to put into words but if you try it you will understand it and it will be tough to game without it. We have tested it with a ASUS SWIFT PG278Q display and come away extremely impressed. Read the article to understand why.

AMD is getting ready for the winter, in this article we look at what AMD labeled the 'Omega Driver'. This is the new 14.12 Catalyst driver which has had some TLC from AMD, improving overall performance on a number of games, and next to that AMD is injecting a few new features as well. Time for a quick article, to cover all topics.

"It is clear that AMD has put a lot of effort into the Catalyst Omega driver and it is equally clear that they wanted and needed the word to get out about it. As I mentioned on the first page, NVIDIA is received as being the company with the better driver and feature support for GeForce customers and AMD has always fallen behind. By increasing the company's emphasis on software (with a new CEO and management structure) the Catalyst team is hoping to finally get the resources necessary to turn that around. This first "special edition" driver is an incredible first step and definitely makes the case that AMD is serious about Catalyst and how the company is perceived by the community."

Every two or so years, AMD rolls out a year-end Catalyst driver update, which steps up not just performance, and splats bugs, but also expands the software feature-set. The new Catalyst 14.12 Omega is part of AMD's effort to catch up with NVIDIA's latest software features, and get ahead with some.

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